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Dee Rees Quotes

Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle.

Dee Rees

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: February 7, 1977

Topics

Interesting Gay Lifestyle Whatever

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

Jim Coleman

Me Self Reach My Own Musically Out

'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

Jerome Charyn

Life Power River Book Fat Place

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

John Cornwell

Best People World Short Poverty Way

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Robert Kagan

Power Influence America New Military

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.

Angela Robinson

Love Me Villain Chance Doing Dream

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

Rod Stewart

Long Good-Looking Never Chalk Bloke

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

Minnie Driver

Music Creative Weird Play Become

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.

Dax Shepard

Age Character Book Name Late Lead

My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.

Christian Serratos

Cute Man Kiss Nice Hot First

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

Claire Danes

Patriotism New York City Growing Up

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Bob Dylan

Yourself You Want Call

Everything yields to diligence.

Antiphanes

Diligence Everything Yields